[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Cole Robinson]

There's a fedora rawhide bug about this as well:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579348

Which points to a qemu-devel posting talking about disk geometry
confusion:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/66135

** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #579348
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579348

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Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586175
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Status in QEMU: New

Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the 
image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the 
boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). 
It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i 
don't think it should be an issue.